I've been listening to the BiggerPockets podcasts and I must say, I'm addicted.

Look at us, we have a population that is in poor health with every 2nd person presently or soon diabetic, wide spread poverty, a level of crime and gun violence like no other country on earth, we managed to make education FOR-profit leading to massive student debt and universities being richer than small countries, if you travel a bit you can see that our infrastructure is worse than some of the ******** countries we look down on, our health care system is F'd up beyond believe, our food is one of the unhealthiest in the world, we are consuming ressources at a level that nobody can match, we are addicted to buying cheap crap nobody needs, have a dispose everything mentality, meanwhile our population is less happy than most of our peer countries.We just got back from visiting my family in Europe and after we landed at OHare and sat in a dirty, beat up shutte bus getting us to the parking lot over a cracked concrete road, garbage on the side of the road, power lines hanging everywhere, my US born wife shook her head said: I can't believe how run down and ****** everything is here..The US is a fantastic country and I have chosen to live here for a good reason, but we really need to get our head of our you know what and start thinking about where we want to be a few decades. 

So, If you got a good property (great shape, no major issues) and better than average tenants (mature adults, no kids,pets or addictions and pays on time) you might be able to make it worth.

I have been addicted to these forums and podcasts as Im trying to soak up as much as I can! 

In the midst of this unbelievably protracted divorce I obtained my residential contractors license and will be looking to use the remaining amount of my equity from our marital estate to build some spec homes in the future.Thanks!

I believe this ability and addiction to learning how things work is why engineers are so prevalent in the investing world.

Is the unbelievability my offer or the winning offer?

Then you would buy a property every year or two for 15-20 years and have an unbelievable portfolio when you retire. 

@Chris Gawlik bottom line is the vast majority of the population will make less money, if any, which will lead to them not being able to afford their old standard, so now rent and mortgage is becoming impossible to pay fully coz it was unbelievably expensive to begin with, so you have massive defaults, which will take a while to play out, because vacancies will rise, major companies and REITs will default on their loans and bonds and EVERYTHING will revaluate lower which in and of itself will cause even more defaults because of equity and reserves requirements by banks/financial institutions.

There is a need for sober living houses and i live in a landlord market but there are so many abandoned houses here and im a recovering addict with a substantial amount of clean time.